Thesaurus results for BROKEN OUT

broken out

verb

past participle of break out

as in erupted

to develop suddenly and violently in the wake of news reports of deaths from the flu, panic broke out, and there was a mad rush for flu shots

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Recent Examples of broken out Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, a war had broken out between Israel and the Socialist regimes of Egypt and Syria. — Rozina Ali, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2026 Stringr The launch near where the trio was found is roughly seven miles southwest of a different boat launch, where a car belonging to one of the women was discovered with a window broken out, state police said in a statement Wednesday. — Tim Stelloh, NBC news, 8 Aug. 2026 Ornelas, 26, has appeared in 32 MLB games for the Texas Rangers and Atlanta Braves over the last three seasons, but has broken out in Triple-A this season. — Sean Campbell, Sacbee.com, 1 Aug. 2026 The news comes mere days after rival OpenAI revealed that an autonomous AI agent had broken out of its sandbox to engage in a multi-day intrusion of the AI community platform Hugging Face. — Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 31 July 2026 Having broken out of prison, Voit tracks them down and saves his daughter. — Joyce Eng, Entertainment Weekly, 23 July 2026 As the chart shows, it has also consistently broken out of consolidation patterns from a relative-strength perspective, with those breakouts versus XLV leading to meaningful upside follow-through. — Frank Cappelleri, CNBC, 17 June 2026 Edouard Julien, who’s broken out of a deep May slump, went 2 for 3 with a double and drove in three runs. — Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 10 June 2026 In 1986, Turner launched the Goodwill Games, an international competition meant to bypass the Cold War fights that had broken out over the Olympics. — David Folkenflik, NPR, 6 May 2026

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After that, chaos erupted, with dozens of masked people swarming the business.

— Lesley Marin, CBS News, 18 Aug. 2026
One person was killed and two others critically injured when gunfire erupted outside a Utah church during a funeral, police said.

— Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of erupted

Verb

Prediction market platforms have exploded in popularity in recent years, facing condemnation from lawmakers and others who argue the sites commodify human suffering and, in some cases, incentivize wrongdoing.

— Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2026
For example, shares of medical platform Doximity exploded earlier this month when CEO Jeffrey Tangney said that the company's AI search product is pulling in revenues-per-search that are 10 times what the tool costs to run.

— Tobias Burns, CNBC, 17 Aug. 2026